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Tuesday, February 24 th , 7:00-8:15 pm, MSC 292B Eating Disorder Discussion Panel with: • Mary Ann Covey, PhD (The Student Counseling Service) • Danny Ballard, PhD (Health and Kinesiology Department) • Ann Reed, MD (Student Health Services) • Karen Villarreal, RD (Scott & White Health System) Wednesday, February 25 ,h , 5:30-6:30 pm, Rec Center Healthy Living Lecture: "Shattering Body Image" Thursday, February 26 ,h , 11:00-2:00 pm Dismiss Distorted Images Informational Table, MSC & Commons Lobby Sponsored by Student Health Services, Health Education, The Student Counseling Service, & Aggie REACH. For more information call 847-8910 THE BATTALION Thursday, February 19,21 Forel Junior sports management major Brook Gentry gets in golf team last year and was practicing for the team's a practice round at the University Golf Course next meet in three weeks, at the Louisiana Classics in Wednesday afternoon. Gentry made the Texas A&M Lafayette, La. Space observatories catch black hole ripping star apart Hie Ag| ik second fiet-lhrow paid To il:59,andi loot came "Tliey u king in the tit," said Qaktte C By Andrew Bridges THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES Astronomers reported Wednesday the first strong evi dence of a supermassive black hole stretching, tearing apart and partially gobbling up a star. The event had long been pre dicted by theory but never con firmed. “This is really fantastic stuff. This is one of the Holy Grails of astronomy,” said astronomer Alex Filippenko of the University of California at Berkeley. A powerful X-ray blast drew the attention of astronomers to the event, located near the center of an otherwise inconspicuous galaxy called RX J1242-11. The galaxy is about 700 million light-years from Earth. The international team of astronomers believes the blast was produced as debris from the destroyed star was sucked into the black hole. “The last cry of help before the matter falls into the black hole is radiated in X-rays, which we have detected,” said Gunther Hasinger, of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany. The resulting flare was thou sands of times brighter than all of the billions of other stars in the galaxy, astronomers said during a NASA news confer ence broadcast from Washington. A black hole is a massive but unseen celestial object that has such an intense gravitation al pull that nothing — not even light — can escape from it. This particular black hole is estimated to have a mass 100 million times that of the sun. Astronomers said an unlucky star about the size of our sun neared the black hole after veering off course following a close encounter with another star. The tremendous gravity of the black hole stretched the star, ripping it apart in perhaps just hours or days. The star pame apart at a distance from the black hole comparable to the 140 million miles that separates the sun and Mars. “In this case, David can’t outwit Goliath and Goliath wins because ultimately, gravity wins here,” NASA astronomer Kim Weaver said. The black hole consumed anywhere from 1 percent to 25 percent of the doomed star, flinging the rest out into space. Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatories to capture the event. Similar events are estimated to occur just once every 10,000 years in a typical galaxy, depending on how closely Stretched to the breaking point Two observatories haveproofoi a star being stretched apart by a black hole. The star-about the size of our sun - probably came too close to another star, throwing it into the path of a black hole 100 million times its mass, Multimillion-degree gases fror the tearing create an X-ray bte picked up by observatories Drawing is schematic. SOURCES: Harvard-Smithsonian H Center for Astrophysics: NASA packed it is with si Astronomers have long soi to witness one. Astronomers have seen similar X-ray blasts before, never were able to pinp them at the center of a where black holes lurk. H new observations also reveali the characteristic X-ray sign ture expected of the surrouitf ings of a black hole. The blast was first seen 1992 and remains visibleai fades. By! 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